Comment: Re:Natural immunity (Score 1) 122
So I need a prescription for antibiotics but animals don't. Wish that worked for pain killers.
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Comment: Re:User Errors (Score 1) 185
Word.
Comment: I'm not sure I want to know (Score 1) 185
Yea, fuckin quaddies think they own the place.
Comment: Re:Wear the tin foil hat (Score 1) 303
We should write a chrome extension that detects the unique identifiers we all have in our tracking cookies and trades them between users. Their data would be useless after that.
Comment: Re:Wear the tin foil hat (Score 1) 303
Good design !== makes money. Which one do you think most sites are going to lean toward.
I hate to break it to you but the majority of development is so far off from a programmer fantasy it can be considered gore. And thats not changing anytime soon.
Comment: This is intolerance (Score 1) 1746
Whatever he believes, should we not tolerate that? Why should he be shunned for having a particular viewpoint? Do we want to live in a society where people are persecuted for their beliefs?
Comment: Re:tldr (Score 1) 490
And my post points out that your post is the first to point out that a posts repeats a post.
Comment: Re:Here's how to secure your "Internet of things" (Score 1) 106
Think about it.
You leave a pork loin in the oven before you leave for work. The oven refrigerates the meat until it's time to cook it, so its ready when you get home. You get stuck at the office. You send a text to your oven to slow the cook time by an hour.
Comment: Re:Shit. (Score 1) 437
For the heating elements, you just need to cut into the seat and run a current across it. If its present, it cannot be securely disabled.
Comment: Re:Qui Bono? (Score 1) 437
I really dislike the trend of buying products but being restricted in how we can modify them. When warranties are involved, the manufacturer should have some say to prevent you from wrecking your car. But when they start throwing DMCA suits against you, that's when you know when it has gone too far.
Maybe this will be the example the lawmakers need to see how ridiculous their policies are.
Comment: Re:All I Have To Say Is (Score 1) 437
I'm sure ripping the wires out of the floor and running your seat warmer won't mess with your insurance. What are you even getting at?
Comment: Re:Weapons purposes in license (Score 1, Troll) 229
But if its being used by a tyrant, is the code really free?
Comment: Weapons purposes in license (Score 1) 229
Isn't there a provision in the license stating the software cannot be used for weapons purposes or something of the like?
Comment: Nearly identical cheaper alternatives? (Score 2) 63
If the cheaper version is nearly identical then what warrants the high price to begin with?
Comment: Re:Soviet Russia jokes overload (Score 1) 320
The hard part is making Nietzsche jokes that don't have terrifying implications in the real world.
Like the Daily Show.
